Has Naganath Thota, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $341 in general payments to Naganath Thota, MD across 16 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Naganath Thota, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Naganath Thota, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Naganath Thota, MD

Internal Medicine · Southaven, MSNPI 1952742991

Payments from drug & device makers

$341in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $21.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Novartis$68
Novo Nordisk$50
Mylan Specialty L.p.$48
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$45
AstraZeneca$44
AbbVie$25
plus $61 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$341100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Novartis	4	$68
Novo Nordisk	1	$50
Mylan Specialty L.p.	2	$48
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$45
AstraZeneca	2	$44
AbbVie	1	$25
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$19
Vifor Pharma, Inc.	1	$16
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$15
Medtronic	1	$11

How this compares

$341 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 846 internal medicine providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$154,668

Medicare patients

520

Services billed

1,527

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban	19	$11,318
Hydralazine Hcl	23	$190
Cefdinir	20	$182
Amiodarone Hcl	18	$160
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	14	$120
Carvedilol	29	$107
Doxycycline Monohydrate	13	$90
Pantoprazole Sodium	15	$73
Doxycycline Hyclate	13	$68
Amlodipine Besylate	29	$55
Furosemide	26	$42
Atorvastatin Calcium	11	$40
Losartan Potassium	12	$38
Prednisone	16	$28

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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